“Tesla put up new “urban” style Superchargers in a few locations. First ones up are in Chicago & Boston. Because I live only 40 miles away from these new Superchargers in Chicago, I drove out there to check them out!”

“Tesla states these new ones hold a continuous 72 kW even while all of them are in use. This is very true! Plugged in at 1:45, left at 2:35. From 47 miles of range remaining, to 201.”

Perhaps, but as a person in a city, I can say we need them more. More suburbanites live in single family homes. People in large cities tend to live in condos, townhomes or apartments.

And I’ve been saying for years Tesla should do this… very happy to see it. I was willing to move to a new apartment with EVSE stations. But not everyone would be willing to make such a change to drive electric lol.

As Tesla grows, I think they will expand to include all plug types, and this will become a money maker for them.

True although more than likely in the short term, I think they will be partnering with energy companies. An EVGO-Tesla partnership I could see for instance. But luxury automakers might partner with Tesla directly soon.

However, I’d like to propose more outlandish and retro partnerships…

SONIC drive-ins! Plug in, place your order, and wait for your food to come! Apparantly there is a test store here in texas but the stations are only L2 I think. A 50-72kW charger would be far more useful.

Or maybe we can finally see the comeback of drive in movie theaters! A new one just opened in the Dallas area… this would be an awesome place to charge lol!

The big push should be for home, apts, rentals to have/make available charging sites for EVs, esp. at night.
These outside urban chargers should be slower during the daytime, but outside of the heavy demand time, let them rip.

LOL, you silly goose! If Elon indeed considers the 72 kW Urban Superchargers to be pacifiers, then Tesla should change the style of the charger pedestal to incorporate life-sized replicas of Elon’s teats for Tesla Cult Members to suckle while charging. 😛

Meh, it could be worse. It’s a good thing that it’s too impractical and space consuming to design the pedestals to simulate returning to Elon’s womb for Tesla Cult Members waiting to charge. Now that’s a truly nasty visual!

No, he didn’t mock others efforts, he was obviously hinting that 350kW as an insufficient descriptor of the power of TESLA’s upcoming top line charger. He made absolutely no reference to anyone else’s chargers.

But then you realize that Elon is widely known for lying a lot, especially on Twitter, so you just discard what he said as utter nonsense and the world will be a more normal place.

I mean how many solar roofs have they installed so far? Haha.

Anyways, I think these Urban SCs make a lot of sense. They’re clearly for situations where you drive to somewhere and let your car charge for a little while. They’re purpose isn’t to get as much juice as fast as possible so I think they make a lot of sense as-is. Nothing wrong with spending less $ on them while giving customers what they want if you ask me.

Like the Model 3 product launch and rollout, Tesla has installed their solar roofs only on the houses of VIP Tesla employees Elon Musk and JT Straubel AFAIK. They are the employee testers of Tesla’s pre-production solar roof shingles.

It been reported that Tesla didn’t even have a working prototype solar shingle roof at the time of the reveal. The ones on the roofs of the houses on the Hollywood backlot at the reveal were nonfunctional. Who knows for sure whether the Tesla solar roofs installed on Elon and JT’s houses are functioning properly (if at all), and how much electricity (if any) they are generating.

I think the first thing autonomous Teslas should be able to do is drive out of a charging stall to a non-charging parking spot when charging is complete. (yes… it has to unplug. Snake cable, or better yet… Roomba style dock)

Why would a supercharger be a better place for muggers than anywhere else in that parking garage? And if you put some kind of keyfob access, that means people would not be able to use the stations without first obtaining a keyfob. That would really stink if you drove there needing a charge and found you couldn’t get it. I don’t see the point of that.

Neat, but after watching Fully Charged I think what the world needs is a charger like this one that can be mounted to the roof of a parking garage, swing out to cover multiple parking spots…Needs to be “super” sized, but it a design that rocks!`

To me the chosen site is a fail. They’ll definitely be used by the lucky owners living in that immediate Illinois Center area but it isn’t practical for people living in any other neighborhood. It’s not convenient off a highway; it’s too isolated to walk from chargers to anything and return in 30 minutes; a parking fee when fueling up is ridiculous; and it’s set in a part of town locals rarely visit. There was already a chargepoint L2 location here- that should have been the first red flag!
Hoping they figure this out and put the next one in a better location. There are many neighborhoods with similar housing density that also have local attractions, free surface parking lots, and convenient in/out routing. Or maybe just off a main expressway on the edge of the city if convenience is priority.

Since this was an install in an existing lot, all the piping was exposed, and, while I’m grateful to see the first video of the new ‘stylish’ supercharger bays (at a distance in this video since curiously he’s more interested in the dispenser rather than the charger itself (still apparently 2 dispensers per charger – although, in this case ‘limited all the time’ means ‘full power’ all the time, if you deem that 200 amperes is full power).

So, you’d think he’s trace out the piping with his camera, and at least figure out which supercharger bay is running 2 dispensers (or his car anyway), but I guess I’m just the inquisitive sort.

Seeing this is a big city parking garage, I wonder how soon it will be before someone rams the Supercharger Bay with their car/truck.

I loved what GM stated about their company building public charges like Tesla did with their superchargers. GM said that is the government or private sector problem. So GM is just building compliance cars. This is a repeat of the 1970’s except this time instead of the Japanese fuel efficient vehicle it will be the EV’s! Tesla so smart to build the charging system at the same time as the car. The electric infrastructure is already in place as all you need is a plug!